Excerpt from Raemaekers Cartoon History of the War, Vol. 3 The German Government is rounding up in large numbers in the towns and villages of occupied Belgium, such as Alost, Ghent, Bruges, Courtrai, and Mons, - to name only the first to be victims of the measures, - all men fit to bear arms, rich and poor, irrespective of class, whether employed or um employed, hunchbacks, cripples, and one-armed men alone are excepted. These men are torn in thou sands from their families; fifteen thousand from Flanders alone are sent God knows where. Whole trainloads are seen going east and south. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.